"I can say publicly that now we are together in trying [to do Hellboy 3]," del Toro revealed to Entertainment Weekly at Comic-Con.

Perlman added: "The [first] two movies were really set up to have this unbelievable resolve. Everything that was done in both movies was leading up to this destiny, written in stone, of what Hellboy has been summoned to Earth to do.

"To not do it, particularly in light of the scope that Guillermo is thinking of for the resolve, would be in my mind a little bit of a shame."